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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 198

Head-on Crash Eight Injured In Collision Near Harbord

Truth · Sunday 3 March 1935 · page 16

IN a head-on collision at the corner of Harbord Road and Pittwater Road, Harbord, yesterday, between an ice cream waggon and a…

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Skulls Fractured in Collision

The Sun · Sunday 3 March 1935 · page 1

When two motor cars were in collision in Prince's Highway, Helensburgh, late yesterday, Florence Bim buck, 65, of Beecroft-avenue…

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Horses Fell Two Men Critically Injured

The Sun · Sunday 3 March 1935 · page 6

Two men lie critically injured in hospital-- one at Yass, the other at Trundle --as the result of falls from horses yesterday…

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Four Injured Motor Smash in Newcastle Lorry and Car Newcastle

Truth · Sunday 3 March 1935 · page 16

AMBULANCE cars rushed four people to the Newcastle Hospital when a car and a motor lorry became in [?]olved in a collision at the intersection…

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Phenomenal Floods In N.Queensland: 32ins. Of Rain Pastures Flooded, Stock Drowned Police Save People in Low Areas Nightmare Trip in 'Plane Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 3 March 1935 · page 2

Beating down almost incessantly for 96 hours, a tropical deluge has caused phenomenal floods on the stretch of the North Queensland coast from Mossman to Ingham, a distance of just under 200 miles…

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Fatal Motor Accident

Truth · Sunday 3 March 1935 · page 16

GEORGE CROSS, of Temple Court, Melbourne, a brother of Mr. John H. Cross. Mayor of Manly, was tilled yesterday in a motor accident at…

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Cyclist Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 1

Cyclist Injured. Believed to have fallen from his bicycle while riding to Windsor, Harold Terry (21), of Purchase-street, Parramatta, was…

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Picnic Party Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 11

As a result of a head-on collision between a seven-seater motor car and an ice cream waggon at the intersection of Harbord and Pittwater roads, North Manly, on Saturday…

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Injured in Cycle Smash

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 5

In a smash in the five miles scratch race at the cycling carnival yesterday at Wyatt Park, Lidcombe, J. Flood (Gulgong) and R. Murray…

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Runaway Horse Child Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 2

In the busy shopping centre of Liverpool on Saturday morning, a horse with a sulky attached bolted from the front of a store in Scott-street, and striking a post,…

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Casualties. Schoolboy Injured. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 6

Edward McCauliffe, aged 12, was waiting on the roadside to join the service car to take him to school at Casino, and when running across the road to pick up his schoolbag he…

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Mine Workers Injured. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 10

Thomas Wilson, a wheeler, suffered abrasions and bruises to the hips when he was jammed between a sl[?]p and a prop at the State mine. When John Marshall, 23, was…

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Collision with Bullock; Man Killed Darwin

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 5

As the result of injuries received last Friday near Ferguson River when the motor quad, on which he and three others were riding,…

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Hit with Bottle. Taxi Driver Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 11

About 1 o'clock on Saturday morning Paul Wiesz, a taxi driver employed by the Red Cab Company, Victoria-street, Darlinghurst, was engaged by a man at the corner of…

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Man Drowned in Botany Bay. Youth Swims for Aid

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 9

Alan Sweet, 24, of Chapel-street, Marrickville, was drowned in Botany Bay yesterday morning when the canoe he was paddling became waterlogged. His companion, Robert…

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Man Drowned in Bay Mate Swam for Over an Hour

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 1

LAST seen clinging to a submerged canoe, a young man was drowned yesterday, while a lad was rescued after he had…

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Car Hits Fruit Cart; Two Injured Wagga

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 7

When a motor lorry crashed into a fruiterer's cart yesterday, two persons were injured, one seriously. John Byrne, the fruiterer, was showing…

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Race to Hospital In Railway Section Car Leads to Fatality. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 9

A section car in which a railway fettling gang was taking a sick man to Pine Creek Hospital last night struck a bullock on the railway line while travelling at high speed,…

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Big Game Fishing Tragedy Man Drowned On Narooma Bar Launch Capsizes Narooma

The Sun · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 7

THE first tragedy associated with big game fishing on the South Coast occurred to-day at Narooma, when a big passenger launch capsized on the bar and John Donaldson, 25, a journalist, of the Melbourne "Herald," was…

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Man Drowned; Epic Effort of Mate Half-mile Swim for Assistance Canoe Capsized In Botany Bay Choppy Sea

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 1

A HALF-MILE swim through the choppy water of Botany Bay by Robert Shearer, 16, of Cashman Road, Brighton le Sands, in an…

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